YouTube do a miserable job keeping scams off their site, I must report.
Flight Tests are national-broadcast events where Elon blows up a rogget, beyond doing "wet dress rehearsals". Due to lawfare, especially parachuting activists including a fake "indigenous" tribe, SpaceX doesn't telegraph when it will do one. Flight Test Four is... coming. Teslarati predict anytime 3-5 weeks. But it could happen Any Day Now.
... beware that it might not be any minute now.
So: Scammers can make an account that claims "SPACEX [LIVE]" with a stream of maybe a seven minute countdown, from file footage of previous flight-tests maybe lightly adjusted. At 30 seconds they'll "stop" the (spurious) countdown. Then "Elon" will get on stage... to promote some QR code for bitcoin or Doge. That bit is deepfaked, but you can sort-of tell that it's fake given it sounds soulless, like the souls of the scammers. [This is the point where I realised... I'm being had; luckily I personally was not had.]
Why doesn't Youtube do anything about this? - like, at least not raising this to #1 on my suggestions?
- because Youtube don't care. They're too busy protecting grifters from "The Alt Right", and hounding the latter. Since Youtube already has its thumb on the scale for one set of grifters, why not the other. Especially if they're grifting SpaceX watchers; X, owned by the same South African, is a Youtube semi-competitor.
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